Ages ive gone my job so i have so stay is an i feel like the piano and music in general with my voice together i feel really powerful and strong s. Fewer good afternoon. Well start with the meet and i welcome our councilors and president norman yee. Id like to thank our clerk and thank you sf gov tv for board offing this. Madame clerk. Clerk the city chamber and Committee Rooms are closed and others will be participating remotely. Caution is taken various local stayed and orders and directors. Well have the meeting through Video Conference and Public Comment will be available on each item on this agenda and theyre streaming the number across the screen. Each speaker will be allowed 10 minutes to speak. Opportunities to speak during Public Comment period are available via phone call by calling 415655001. Access code 145 254 1827 best practices are to speak clearly and alternately you can email for Public Comment and theyll be forwarded to the supervisor and included part of the file and items are expected to appear for the agenda june 17 than otherwise stated. S. Fewer call items one, two and three together. Clerk [reading items] members of the public wishing to provide Public Comment on these items should call 415655001 access code 145 254 1827 and then press pound twice. If you have not already done so, please dial star 3. Wait until the system indicates you have been muted and you may begin your comments. S. Fewer madame clerk are you muted . Check your microphone. You were unmuted the last 20 seconds. S. Fewer colleagues we had these items last week and there was a discussion around the increase for iahh workers and there was a difference of opinion and happy to say well have an amendment today. So we have heard the report already and also heard from the b. L. A. We have assessed and i just want to say i want to appreciate the mayors Budget Office for working with me in the last week to address our concerns regarding the mcl increase for ihss workers the board unanimously passed legislation last year to put into place legislation coauthored by supervisor romen and myself. Putting our equity principles into practice is critical. Im happy weve been able to come to an agreement for our lowest wage worker and we have an amendment to introduce today. This amendment will restore 75 of the wage increase through the minimum compensation ordnance beginning september 1. I would like to read the amendment into record. To increase the Human Service agency in fiscal year 20202021 by for increases for ihss employees and we reduce the curb rent in the project public work by the same amount and once again i want to thank so much to to the mayors Budget Office for working with us to find these funds. Colleagues, any comments or questions . Yes, president yee n. Yee i want to thank to the chair. I appreciate your addressing this issue. Youre right and correct that we need to find ways to support those that are at the bottom of the pay scale. I just want to show my appreciation. S. Fewer thank you president. Supervisor ronen. It was an honor to work with you on it and a want to appreciate you for once again championing and standing up for the lowest wage workers who do such critical work in our city and to the Mayors Office for finding this solution. I really appreciate your work on this. S. Fewer thank you for your support. Having said that are there any other comments or questions from my colleagues . I think we heard the presentation last week and heard the report. All we have to do now is listen to Public Comment. If i dont see any other comments or questions from my colleagues, madame clerk, please open up Public Comment for items one, two and three. Clerk operation is checking to see if theres anyone in the queue. I have one call i will queue them up. Hi, can you hear me . S. Fewer yes. Caller i wanted to comment on the nco for the ihss. I do appreciate this effort though 75 of the increase and i one of the reasons we are low paid workers is that because we are black jobs matter. We were excluded from regular workers legislation were still try to catch up. The president of fdr to get the wagner act passed had to sacrifice black jobs and agriculture and Domestic Workers were qualified as Domestic Workers. We do need to try to eventually get back on track with an additional 25 at some point i hope because our negotiating committee worked to do as much as we could for the lowest paid city workers though we are not technically city county workers we do the work of the city and county and frankly are a good deal for the city and council. Our disabled and seniors and keep them in their homes and weve seen with this Pandemic Group housing is not the best solution. Home care is. I hope the city will recognize this and if we cant do it now restore the additional 25 were not able to do this year in the future in the future life of the contract going another two years. Its so important that this work be compensated in a way that keeps workers able to be dedicated to their consumers and to the work of the city. My name is bradley weidmyer. Thank you. Clerk hello, next call. Clerk are there any callers that wish to comment on these items . Hello . Caller [indiscernible]. S. Fewer madam clerk is there a way to assist the caller. Theyre breaking up and we cant understand what the caller is saying. Ill move on and then go back to them. Clerk can the caller come to a place where they get better reception and well come back to you. Caller hello . Staff go ahead. Caller im speaking spanish. Somebody translate for me, okay . [speaking spanish] staff i want to let you know we dont want to delay because we have on the front line. We are risking our lives to take care of our consumer and were asking please not to delay the wage increase for us. Thank you so much. Caller [speaking spanish] staff hi, my name is helen campos i want the rect of the contract with the wage increase july 1st. We are on the front line and taking care of the elderly. We are at risk all the time so we can in the wait for a they are for our wage increase. Thank you so much. Clerk thank you, next caller, please. Clerk well go to the next caller. Caller [indiscernible]. S. Fewer perhaps you can go back to the original caller. S. Fewer i dont believe they can hear us. Perhaps we can skip over them. Staff that completes the speakers. S. Fewer apologies. Are we done with Public Comment . Staff yes. S. Fewer . To those waiting to speak, my apologies. I know this is difficult im so sorry. I know it is challenging to call in to give Public Comment and i just wanted to thank you for being on the line and i again apologize i think theres difficulty to express yourself through our conference line. Apologies. Also, i believe that there was ive been told was there a consideration from the v. O. A. We didnt take up last week . Staff im from the budget and legislative analyst office. We had a recommendation in our report last week on the income budget recommending the chief privacy officer either be deleted from the interim budget or be put on reserve. I believe the committee accepted the recommendation to put the position on the reserve. S. Fewer okay. Thank you very much. So today colleagues we have an amendment i have introduced. I would like a second, please, to make a motion to accept that amendment. N. Yee seconded. S. Fewer thank you. Can we have a roll call vote please on the amendment madam clerk. Clerk its on the interim budget and appropriation ordnance item no. 1. [roll call] clerk all ayes. S. Fewer id like to move items 2 and 3 with a positive recommendation. Can have a second, please. H. Ronen second. S. Fewer roll call, please. [roll call] s. Fewer thank you very much. Madam clerk please call item 4. The recurring state grant Funds Department of Public Comment fy20202021. Those members of the public who wish to state Public Comment call 4156550001 and access code 145 254 1827 and press pound twice and star 3. A system prompt will indicate you have raised your hand and please wait until it indicates you have been unmuted and then begin your comments. Commissioner thank you, madam clerk. We have the department of Public Comment joining us. Staff good afternoon, supervisors. You have a total of 49 grants, 12 million for your approval and review. These are all recurring state grants that support vital programming to pay for contracts and personnel. They are included as appropriations or will be included as appropriations in the upcoming budget but they require a separate board action for accepting the grant award. I can take any questions or provide details as needed. S. Fewer any comments or questions from my colleagues . Seeing none, well open it up to Public Comment. Madam clerk please call for Public Comment on item 4. Clerk operation is checking to see if theres callers in the queue. Let us know. If you have already done so, press star 3 to the added to the queue and those on hold continue to wait until it indicates you have been unmuted. This is for those who wish to comment on item no. 4. Staff we have no callers for item no. 4. S. Fewer Public Comment is now closed for item 4 and would like to move it to the board for a positive recommendation. May i have a second, please. N. Yee second. S. Fewer middleinco madam call, please. [roll call] clerk there are five ayes. S. Fewer madam clerk call item no. 5. Clerk public work budget analysis and impact on services and expenditures. Members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment call 4156550001 and access code 145 254 1827 then press pound twice. If you have not already done so, please dial star 3 to speak until the system prompts you have indicated you raised your hand and wait until the system indicate us have been unmuted and you may begin your comments. S. Fewer the very much. Is supervisor hanney joined uey . I wanted to welcome him if has joined us. Today we have acting director of public works. We have also support staff march the 1 is a series of hearing the budget and Appropriations Committee is holding specifically to better understand the budgets of the department. We asked the budget and legislati legislative analyst to produce a report to help the committee deepen the understanding of governmental budgets and how theyre structures and how theyve grown over time and more. The proposed budgets for the next fiscal year and rather the intent is to deepen the understanding of the current fiscal year and historical context. This will help us be more informed as we move towards august. Thanks to public works for being the First Departmental hearing. I will first be calling on the b. L. A. To present the report first and then we have a presentation from acting director of public works. So b. L. A. , could we first hear your report . Staff thank you, chair fewer. Ill pull up my slides. Just a second. Okay. Good afternoon chair fewer. Im here to provide a brief summary on the budget analysis report on public works. This is the first of five reports and presentations as part of the boards prebudget review activities. In the coming weeks well be providing similar reports to the Mayors Department of housing and development and police depend and department of Public Health and finally putting together eight public departments to be presented in late july. Chair fewers office coordinated with other board Budget Offices to request we provide a standard set of analysis for departments the ones ive mentioned. Specifically what we were asked to provide a breakdown of divisions within each of the four departments including a purview of each division and program. Second, the total current year adopted budget for each division and 10year look back to fiscal year 2011 and current fulltime equivalent positions within each division as well as a 10year look back to fiscal year 2011 and finally the total amount contracted out within each division. In addition to the standard questions we were asked to provide impact of the covid19 pandemic and policy questions for each department. The department of public works is organized into four divisions as well as a Directors Office and reports to the administrator. Theres operation, Building Design and construction, infrastructure design and construction and administration. Within each division there are multiple bureaus often referred to as programs. The Directors Office includes the Emergency Management program, policy and communications, university of public works, which is an inhouse training and education program. The Operations Division includes most of the direct municipal offices within the department and the bureaus within the Operations Division include building repair which provide professional construction and repair to cityowned facilities and Emergency Repair services 24 hours a day to ensure police, fire and other Public Safety operation fully functional. Street and sewer repair which oversees paving and work including patch paving and filling potholes as well as sewer repair on older pipes that require brick work. The Street Environmental Services clean streets and curbs using mechanical street sweepers and removes graffiti and cleans receptacles and oversees work crews. Though sidewalks maintenance remains the responsibility of Property Owners it cleans dog waste and other bio hazards and another responsibility is Tree Planting and maintenance of all street trees and median maintenance and cement shop and repair medians and curbs and design and Construction Division providers comprehensive planning, project management and Building Construction management, contract support and compliance monitoring, Hazardous Materials investigation and abatement, materials testing, Quality Assurance and controlled service for the development of New Buildings and the modernization of existing buildingfests in publish ush building facilities and publish urban landscapes and often referred to as vertical construction. The bureaus include architecture, landscape architecture, Construction Management, project management and project controls and services. The infrastructure design and Construction Division has similar functions to the Building Design and Construction Division and includes engineering, planning, project development Design Construction manage in the and Consulting Services for a range of Capital Improvement projects and rightofway infrastructure including street, truck structure, sidewalks, curbs and streetscapes. Most the work of this division is the department horizontal construction. Bureaus include design and engineering, Construction Management, project management and street use and mapping. Street use and mapping ensures the citys sidewalks and streets are safe and accessible by permitting and inspecting the use of the public rightofway including the installation inspection and inspection of sidewalks. Finally, the finance and Administration Division includes administrative units that provide budget, capital planning, analytical, Performance Management and Contract Administration and Information Technology support services for the department. The cost of this division are accounted for under General Administration as well as reflected as overhead charges to the other departments and the department upper division. Te adopted budget is 387 million. The total budget which is the number you see in the annual appropriation ordnance aao, includes Significant Program cost which is draw a large amount of support from Nongeneral Fund sources such as federal, state and local enterprise funds. The departments current total year General Fund Budget is 144, 075,313 and 48 is supported by general fund primarily for street resurfacing and often referred to as Capital Projects but there are other Capital Projects also in that departments budget. The total number is up about 224 million for about 138 over the last 10 years. The departments General Fund Budget is up about 118 million or almost 450 over the last so years versus 107 for the general fund city wide. Most growth is driven by the Street Resurfacing Program from the Street Safety bond to the general fund in fiscal year 20142015. The general fund support for continuing project primarily road resurfacing has increased from about 6 million at the start of the 10year period in fiscal 2011 to nearly 59 million in the fiscal year 20192020. If we look at the operating side of the departments general fund support, we see the increases are closer to the growth in the general fund. If we look at the growth in fiscal year 2008 and 2009 and make it a 12year look back wed be looking back at a similar point in the Economic Cycle. Fiscal year 2008 and 2009 was a point before most the large cuts were made in the general fund resulting from the recession that was caused by the 2008 financial crisis. If we look to that year the general Fund Operating support went up 124 versus 101 city wide for the general fund. It looks closer to the actual city wide general fund growth. The department of public works staff attribute most the growth in the departments general Fund Operating budget to the expansion of Street Cleaning Services including the initiation of the Pit Stop Program and increases in negotiated salaries and benefits. In addition, voters approved a measure in november 2016 to shift responsibility from street trees to the city. There was a significant associated increase in general fund support to the bureau of urban forestry in 20172018 to account for the shift. As shown in exhibit 2 on page 8 of our report, the departments total budgetapproved fte position are 1,761. 5 and what youd see in the annual salary ordnance. This number can be broken down to better understand the growth in the departments positions by offbudget ftes for those position are project based and funded versus onbudget positions which are funded by the operating fund of the general fund. The total number of approved project based positions in the current year is 589. 3ftes. Projectbased positions have increased 65 over the last 10 years. The total number of approved operating positions in the current year is 1,172. 2 ftes. The department operating position have increased by 36 in the last 10 years but only by 7. 4 if we look back again to fiscal year 20082009 a similar point in the Economic Cycle to where we were at the beginning of the current fiscal year. Exhibit 2 on page 8 includes the details of the 12year history. One key area id like to highlight is the second column from the right which shows the total funded and offbudget ftes. The numbers include operating positions funded. Which means the number of positions the department can hire after their attrition was budgeted into their budget plus the offbudget for projectbased positions. This is probably the best number to focus on in terms of the departments budgeted position. The total onbudget funded and offbudget ftes in the current year is 1,660. 3 ftes. The departments position by this measure have increased by 44. 7 in the last 10 years and 19. 8 in the last 12 years. The Building Design and Construction Business and infrastructure design and Infrastructure Division have seen the largest increases in positions over the last 12 years. A detailed breakdown of fte growth is included in appendix a of our report. And the accident reports over the last three and a quarter years they entered into contract totalling 1. 4 billion. Construction constitute 82 of the total amount and professional services constitute 12 . Department staff note these services are mostly for specialized work that dpw doesnt have in house or when the Department Needs to supplement inhouse staff. The Services Include but are not limited to architectural and engineering for large projects, geotechnical work, training, elevator design and surveying. And on page 12 details the approved budget by division over the last 10 years. The programs with the largest budget in the current year are infrastructure, design and construction at about 134 million. Street Environmental Services at about 94. 5 million and urban forestry at about 50 million. Programs with the largest growth by dollar volume over the last 10 years are the same departments. Infrastructure, design and construction but the horizontal construction of the department is up by 77 million and street design Environmental Services is up by 58 million. Again, we discussed the services under this bureau have been scanned scanneded expanded in the last 10 years including the creation of the Pit Stop Program and the expansion of that program and the bureau of urban forestry up about 33 million which again inherited responsibilities for all the city street trees after voters passed a ballot measure shifting that responsibility. The department switched to providing only essential services. Routine maintenance was suspended. Community events were cancelled and most construction work was curtailed. Exceptions were provided in the shelter in place order that allowed public works projects relating to construction for the homeless, Pandemic Health care related budgets an essential infrastructure to continue. Public works that generates revenue through direct services suffered due to business disruption such as the bureau of street use which allows revenue with reduced activities and the mayor cut support for street projects and other Capital Projects by about 17 million as discussed two weeks ago as part of the current year rebalancing. In addition to that 2. 9 million was cut from curb ramp projects as an outside [indiscernible] the department has decreased expenditures to assist in their Pandemic Response including the department of homelessness and Supportive Housing and the department of Public Health. The biggest single programmatic increase related to covid19 was for additional pit stop and hand washing stations to be opened and monitored 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The Department Projects approximately 8. 3 million million will be spent through the current year and the department will seek reimbursement from fema and cal oes for expenditures. Now i just want to turn to the final part of our report which is the policy questions that were presented to us that were specific to the department of public works. The first question was we were asked to provide some information on the departments oversight on contracting and procurement. And the city what we found was the City Attorneys Office and Controllers Office are conducting ongoing investigations in relation to conflict of interests and exchange of gifts and focussing on employees and contracts and the Controllers Office is focussing on systems failures. The Systems Office in coordination with the City Attorneys Office will make decisions affecting all city agency. The second question we were asked was to present summary information on the clean street programming of the department. What we found is that street remains a top concern of City Residents according to the controllerss 2018 survey of residents and infrastructure is the third most cited issue with 40 of respondents saying streets have gotten worse since 2017. Exhibit 6 on page 15 and 16 of our report detail the Street Cleaning Services provided by the department. Exhibit 7 on page 17 of our report details the bureau of Street Environmental Services budget since fiscal year 20122013. As shown in that exhibit the bureaus budget has grown from 40 million in 2013 to 94 million in fiscal year 20192020 for an increase of about 135 . Finally, we were asked to conduct the highlevel review of potential redundancies between department of public work and other departments. We conducted the highlevel review of the relationship between public works and the Public Utilities commission and with mta to determine if any potential redundancy exists. We did not find any apparent redundancies based on our review. Public works collaborated closely with the Public Utilities commission because many puc assets, water pipes, sewers and storm drains are located under roadways that are the assets that belong to the department of public works. Weve learned that sewer or pipe failures often cause roadways to crumble and public works has the ultimate responsibility for their integrity and public works is often the First Responders to these collapses. To respond effectively to these situations theyve set up annual work orders so staff can perform repairs on stew we ares smaller than 36 inches in diameter which tend to be the older sewers in the city. The work also helps with the roadways structural integrity. Public works and puc also work closely together as public works is the only department in the city other than the airport with architects or landscape architects. Additionally, public works is a key provider of Construction Management services throughout the city. Dpw provided Construction Management services for the pucs newest headquarters on golden gate avenue. And theres a discussion on how to provide the work services. Due to the limited amount of time to prepare the report we cannot provide conclusive findings on the efficiency of the work orders but we have a policy option you have probably seen in my report related to the findings. That is the board of supervisors could request the Controllers Office or direct the Analysts Office to conduct a limited audit of sewer repair through work orders between the department of public works and the Public Utilities commission. And with that my presentation is concluded and im available for questions, if there are any. Thank you very much. That was a very s. Fewer thank you that was a comprehensive report and very informative. Colleagues, any comments or questions . President lee . N. Yee can you repeat the report again . [laughter] s. Fewer supervisor walton. S. Walton i thought you said there was one other position in house and mta wouldnt have those positions as well . Staff my understanding is that mta does not have architects or landscape architects. S. Walton thank you. S. Fewer any other comments or questions, colleagues, at all . If not we will yes, supervisor . H. Ronen i want to make a recommendation of the audit theres overlap between puc and public works and theres a way to do it in a cheaper way. S. Fewer supervisor ronen, lets hold that motion until the presentation by puc, if you dont mind because we will have that report and public works, the floor is yours. Staff it sounds like theres an echo so im going change computers to try to avoid that. Clerk it wasnt you echoing. You should be find. Supervisor fewer i believe its you. Staff okay. I will share my screen. Dpublic worksdef staff good afternoon, chair fewer and supervisors. I want to say thank you for offering and providing public works the opportunity to present today. Today im going to focus mostly on the structure of public works also going over the budget as a revenue and expenditures and giving you the history of some things weve done over the last 10 years and more recently some things were going with regard to covid. I know there was a presentation so ill try to focus mostly on the areas that will be things that werent covered. One of the first things i want to talk about is who we are at public works we have the core values of respect and integrity and responsiveness and things that support that for us are our three main goals. We want to be the best place to work and we want that to be the best place to work, period. We know its a lofty goal but one of our main goals here. We also want to drive innovation and we want to work with partners in the community and business to improve Public Safety in the city. Whether things weve done recently in response to economic recovery partnering with the Mayors Office, Planning Department and nta to use our sidewalks to try to find ways to spring back revenues in the city. Thats finding ways to make our Public Safety better. Again, this is a quick summary of our flow chart. This is covered before so i wont spend too much time on it. Again the main thing to takeaway is were structured in four different departments or divisions here within public works. Infrastructure, building, operations and admin. Each of those divisions has a Deputy Director that reports to me and the things we address under these as divisions will be under eight bureaus. This is something you heard in the presentation just before mine regarding what each of the bureaus do so im not going to spend too much time going over what each of the bureaus do but the one thing i do want to emphasize and talk about a bit is really the level of the coordination and discussions and the work that takes place within each of these divisions. Obviously theyre all very different as the building and design and Construction Division we refer to as bdc and as mentioned before they do a lot of the vertical work but some of the things we dont think about is that that division works a lot with the bureau working with the building and repair bureau. Thats a Different Division within public works and in partnership and collaboration that goes on there. For example, if there is a problem with one of our buildings and we have to look at it, we may have in the building and repair bureau go and fix it. The same could be said for the infrastructure and design and construction bureau. They do a lot of the design work where it relates to street ste we are and repair or sewer and whether it relate to medians. We see employees doing design work to reach out to industry and sewer repair or urban forestry to talk about if it makes sense from a maintenance standpoint. Theyll reach out to the street and Environmental Services bureau to talk about the angle to make sure its not too steep or not too wide and the street sweepers wont be able to get into crevasses. I want to emphasize theres a lot of coordination that does take place within these bureaus and the value in that has a useful impact to us here in the city. This to summarize to give you an idea of the extreme amount of work the 1600 people here at public works do for the city every year. Were looking at just under 1900 perha programs constructed. In fiscal year 1819 we were able to maintain trees at a growing number. 15,564. And street sweeping goes up as the population of San Francisco goes up and as the use of the 311 app goes up we get more requests and day in and day out were painting over graffiti and planting trees and building repairs. This is just a snapshot of the work thats done by the men and women of public works and again something that takes place 24 7. This is a chart thats kind of showing the expenditures of public works for the fiscal year 1819 echoing what you heard from the budget analysis that both the expenditures from public works comes from outside the general fund on the chart before you. The first column in the general fund and then the column four or five over regarding the general fund and the capital work that we do adds up to about is 23 and it results and general fund is a mix. And if were doing work on behalf of others we have other bonds sources and things like that and the department gets funding from a lot of different sources but the main one we can see in the goldcolored columns are through every Capital Project and that is any number of flavors whether in the building which is referred to as the vertical work. Also horizontal work we do on behalf of the city work on sewers and designing things of that nature. And then we also see as a smaller portion but we also see it on the Operations Side of the house as well. To summarize it matches up with the previous chart showing you we talked about the expenditures. This summarizes where people are working within the department. We have three of our bureaus make up of 61 of the total head count in the department in the bureau of infrastructure and Environmental Services work. Of that work looking at the top two, the bulk is funded through offbudget meaning its coming from operating funds. Those are usually funded through the project itself meaning as a Capital Project. It can also be funded as a work order or a nonoperating source. Going down through the bureaus below that, thats where you do see more of the Funding Sources that are relying on operating funds to fund those positions mostly on the Operations Side of the house. Again, ill go over this quickly, as discussed before, talking about the number of contracts that public works has over the past few years. In the 1718 fiscal year we had 1. 4 billion worth of contracting. The bulk of that falls under construction. I want to highlight one thing very important, we do some big projects here well in the hundreds of millions but in large part though that number youre looking at at 198, there are a lot of projects that would be considered within the city and Construction Contracting to be small. I can tell you public works ly has the highest participation of the local Business Enterprise department in our contract. Which means we have smaller, local contractor actively participating at the prime level or sub level of our contracts. This is something vitally important and more important in the next few years as the country and state and San Francisco, to be more specific, goes through some tough times. Thats where youll see public works will have a big role in helping local contractors get business and work. Theyll help to work with department of Public Health to make sure or local Construction Contracts were able to continue during the shelter in place as it leads to employment for the same groups. Over the years as weve seen the population grow in San Francisco weve seen the demand grow. It starts to show what the population has done in the city and county of San Francisco in the 12 years or so and see during that time the number of the Service Requests that have come to public works have grown over the numbers grow through unhoused residents grow resulting in more demand for the work for us to do here at the Public Works Department. This is a chart that individualizes some information you heard previously from the Budget Analyst Office when we were in the 2007 fiscal year we were at the peak of our staffing and this was also the peak of the economy and then we kind of moved into a recession and we started to see and we took the general fund and resulted in us having to reduce some of the staffing in the street cleaning bureau. Thats what youre seeing here. In the last 10 years or so weve been trying to grow that number because referring back to the previous slide weve seen demand for Services Grow and the main demands weve seen as it relates to street cleaning. As much as possible you have public works trying to meet that demand. The last slide summarizes what public works has done to respond to the covid crisis. Weve worked on something that we take pride in in public works. It goes back to something i was referring to before about the level of team work that happens within public works. Within the bureau of building, design and construction, they basically went out and did a design of these sites and went out to the tenderloin and are currently in the Mission Middle School and got an idea of the number of tents we can put in an area with an architect and shared that with the Operations Team and you can see in the picture we paint the squares. We installed water access and had electricians out to make sure there was power. These are all things public works was able to do. We would not be able to have the efficiencies needed if it was done with different groups and we were also able to do during the covid crisis expand the Pit Stop Program. Since the onset of the covid crisis weve added 33 different locations across the city most in the tenderloin area but i want to emphasize we have added those throughout the city. We are operating those around the clock because we realize the need to provide the services and hand washing stations. We worked with umi to board up the station to keep them safe and secure. We worked to help set up drive through Testing Centers for covid and provided assistance in the streets. Weve done a number of things to support the city and community in our response to covid. As was referred to before but again these are things in public works is proud to do and proud to be a goto department in the time of public crisis. With that, that concludes the presentation and id be happy to answer any questions. S. Fewer colleagues, any comments or questions . Supervisor mandelman . R. Mandelman for stepping into what was already a challenging position. More challenging than you could have possibly imagined. I think the folks that work in your department are heroes. And sheroes and ill start by saying that. Staff thank you. R. Mandelman i have been perplexed and troubled an confused with the Street Management budget for the time ive been on this budget committee. As you know its more than doubled since 2012, i think. Yet the outcomes as measured by the response of residents are not good. People are not happy about the conditions of our streets. We are gaining an International Representation for having dirty streets and this is particularly true during covid but even before covid just massive collections of stuff out on sidewalks and Public Places pretty much is driving a lot of folks up a wall. You dont have to answer the question because its a hard question but im wondering if theres amount of money we can pour into street cleaning that will cause us to have street streets as long as were chasing around people camping in our neighborhoods. I feel its a potentially infinite budget. Were cutting where ever but the marginal dollar for street cleaning and others things are decisions we have to make without detracting from doing what keeps the city looking like it does and raises the question whether the additional tens of millions of dollars we put into street cleaning over the last several years have gone to the right place and how we think about impacting this and whether street cleaning is the way to do it. Staff thank you for the kind words. Its ever challenging but i would not want to be and public works is trying to solve the problem were all dealing with. To answer your question specifically, its probably not the best thing to say but throwing tons of money at the issue of street cleaning is necessarily the answer. Its more of a policy decision. I think to direct it to behaviors that call people to throw their trash on the street or the way our cans work, thats what we need to solve. When i go around with my crews and see the streets whether it be in your district or capitol or ten den tenderloins and see our streets at 6 30 streets are fine and two hours later theres trash every. The trash doesnt magically show up. Theres something causing it and we collectively need to figure that out. Whether that be helping to support additional funding with Mental Health services to address it, it may be the answer. Those are more policy decisions. Certainly though id say cutting budgets in half isnt going to help. We all agree its not one for one for every dollar you put for street cleaning will lead to one less piece of paper. Its a behavioral issue we as a city need to help try and resolve. R. Mandelman thank you for that. I want to express the incredible gratitude, again, i have for your folks who are out at 5 00 and 6 00 and 7 00 in the morning and who every day are confronting incredible conditions they shunt have to. Shouldnt have to. I do have tremendous respect for that. But thank you for engaging in this conversation with me. Staff yep. S. Fewer president yee. N. Yee thank you, chair fewer. I guess i have two questions. One is in regards to what you pick up in the streets do you have a sense of volume of garbage we are picking up as a city . I dont know that number off the top of my head but we take debris to the dump and theres a dump fee or a big scale you drive on to and that can assess the weight. I can give it to you within the next day or so the average volume. N. Yee thats helpful but youve been with the department how long now . Staff five months next week. N. Yee dont you know everything yet . [laughter] is there a comparison whether 10 years ago we were picking up the same amount of garbage. Staff i cant say from the volume standpoint but i can say from the number of Service Calls were getting and i can send it to you if you dont have a hard copy but we have seen the number of Service Calls rising. Theres more debris and things youre seeing on the streets. N. Yee okay. Just trying to figure out if the budget is increasing. Staff as the budget is increasing and something supervisor mandelman mentioned and the Pit Stop Program didnt exist 10 years ago and its a costly program but a little needed right now and added in services right now. I can probably go back with my staff and show you pieces on apples to apples and street sweeping budget and what thats done and incremental adds in the other programs. N. Yee the next question is for clarification, you end up doing some work and a lot of it is contracted out. Youre acting almost as a middle department. Staff it only allows six departments to did construction. One of those puc, airport, parks and the port and those are the only departments that are allowed to do construction work. Police and fire cant do their own work. And in the sense we are performing work on behalf of the Police Department on behalf of the hospital, its kind of a passthough but then at the same time you wouldnt presumptively doing te work themselves because they dont have enough volume to just tie doing their own justify doing their own work to hire persons and then fire them the next year because they built their building and renovated whatever the structure is. Im assuming the rationale is some departments have enough work theyre always doing it, puc, airport and others, fine, you guys can do your own work without coming to public works. Everybody else, what were going to do is try to maximize economies of scale and have one department do construction whether its the design and engineering and all this for everybody else. Theres a large amount for contracting on the construction side. For the engineering, we do a lot of our own Engineering Work unless tea attempt to do all the more complex work ourselves. If the dollars youre seeing being contracted out, thats actually construction work. Nor same reason why and its cyclical you have all the trades. We contract out what looks like is a passthrough but really were bringing on board contractors to build things on behalf of the city and then public works manages that work. N. Yee okay. Thats clarification i needed. You do still have a role in those contracts out. Staff yes, sir. N. Yee thank you. S. Fewer any other questions or comments . I have a question. Can you tell me a little bit about your University Program is this a new program, when did it start, how much of your funds sit and is it government grants or state grants . Tell me about that program and are the participants and that type of thing. Staff sure. The Public Works Department provides information on the city and how it works. Employees and we provide training and be specific on job duties and things like that. We provide ongoing training in education through our employees through that. S. Fewer so this isnt a Training Program you entrylevel jobs people are entering into. This is more of like for your employee come to public works you do an overall and your organization, is that correct . And id also say that its more than just training about who we are but also about getting them the skills they need in order to success in their own careers whether with engineers we have and we have programs that are in the workforce and development program. We partner with various groups within the city to provide opportunities and things like that. And we may provide training as a trainer over from the university to talk to someone within the public works workforce groups and trainees we bring onboard but arent tied together. S. Fewer would you say in your university how many employees do you have that are assigned to the university . Staff three. At the university we have massive numbers of people, theres only three people. S. Fewer do you use the university as an investment into your Management Team . For example, growing talent within public works . Staff absolutely. We see it as an investment to the folks in public works. We have courses whether its negotiating, public speaking. If youre a public works employee we provide the tools and to recognize we have a large number of the public works employees that dont work additional hours. Were trying to design tools so a person can pick up courses offline and pick it up. Were also working with the same group to provide economic training and public works employees struggle month to month to make ends meet and were expanding training to employees not only to help them directly with their job but provide life skills as well. S. Fewer is not a resource for your employees . They dont have anything like this . Staff its similar but not quite that. S. Fewer whats the budget for that . Staff approximately 640,000. Commissioner okay. How many participants on an annual basis may go through your university . Staff probably 1500, 1600 people each year. Well, i said people but some people go through multiple classes. It could be,000 and thousands of classes. S. Fewer employees do these classes on their own time or given time to do it . Staff both. Some classes they do on their own and others they do other times. If its a class specifically job related something regarding the safety and the way youre performing your work, that is obviously something they are getting paid to do. But if its something less related to their work like i was saying before were trying to expand some offerings regarding life skills and budgeting your own finances and that its something they did on their own time. We offer the classes during the day so they can take it during lunch but thats not something were able to pay them for. S. Fewer thank you very much. Others dont invest in their workers and there are some departments that do invest in their workers. Its interesting how public works has chosen to create their own resource for their own employees and help them with skills they need. Its super interesting. I also want to thank you for all the work youve done. Up my neighborhood we have a fairly large one so thank you so much for the pit stop and washing station. I think its really helpful. Supervisor ronen did you want to circle back on questions to concerning a policy recommendation . H. Ronen sure. I wanted to hear a little more in person but it would be good to here from about your thoughts or from v. L. A. On the different points of view between puc and dpw on the question. I didnt read it in the report itself. I may not have gotten to it yet. Staff it was at the end of the report. H. Ronen i was halfway through it when the meeting started. Staff its okay. And the puc was was previously part of the department and in the mid to late 90s that function was moved out and moved to puc but not 100 shifted over to puc. Some of it stayed at dpw. A couple things that stayed, hydraulic engineers stayed behind at dpw and they have skilled brick layers and the smaller constructed pipe is made of this and thats why they contract for bricks instead of hydraulic engineering. And move over to puc. I believe dpw staff and they can speak for themselves but the work theyre doing through a work order is sufficient. And theres rates on work orders from dpw to puc. We werent able to completely flush that out but something that came up. H. Ronen is the work more stream lined . Staff i believe its more than a million a year and i can dig that up for you if you give me a minute. H. Ronen good to know. Thats all the questions i have for right now. S. Fewer great. I see no ones in the queue. In the meantime why dont we take Public Comment on this item. Madam clerk please call Public Comment for the item. Operations see if theres callers in the queue. If you have not already done so, please press star 3. For those already on hold please continue to wait until the system indicates have you been unmuted. Let us know if theres any callers who wish to comment on item number 5. Staff there are no callers in the queue. S. Fewer thank you very much. So lets begin Public Comment, please. Staff there are no callers. Commissioner s. Fewer Public Comment on item no. 5 is closed. I had one question about city bills. I was wondering do you hire directly from city bills . Staff we have our own apprenticeship programs. City hires are on the won tra tract contract side for apprentices. We also have programs that we manage internally. S. Fewer i am wondering about your apprenticeship program. Do they feed to all four different departments on your org chart . Staff no, primarily into two divisions. Mostly operations an one into infrastructure and design. S. Fewer assuming a large part of your budget is hiring subcontracting out for example, is that correct . S. Fewer how many participants do you have on an annual basis . Staff it varies every year. S. Fewer about jobs. Staff too 50 staff 50 of the graduates get apprenticeships. S. Fewer any other comments or questions from my colleagues . We have employees through the programs and they had transitioned into other positions throughout public works we had street inspectors as well. When they come to the public works family theyre not forever tied to that one position. Theyre exposed to have the opportunity to grow their careers throughout the organization and thats where things like the public Works University plays a big role. As larry was talking about our total grants and every 2 goes into this but its not a large role. S. Fewer any more comments or questions . Seeing none i would then like to make a motion to file this. We will hear from public works again during the budget but thank you for being here and giving us an overdue and thanks to the vla for their extensive report we can refer back to when were deliberating during the budget cycle. Thank you to your team for participating today and giving that summary information about the appointment and thank you to your workers for a great job you guys are doing and also nor hard work you do every day to keep us clean and for helping to us build San Francisco. Id like to mation motion to file this item. Can i have a second. N. Yee second. S. Fewer great. Roll call vote, please. [roll call]. You have five ayes. Commissioner madam clerk is there any further Business Today . Clerk no further business. S. Fewer we are adjourned. Thank you, everyone. My name is alan schumer. I am a fourth generation san franciscan. In december, this building will be 103 years of age. It is an incredibly rich, rich history. [ ] my core responsibility as city hall historian is to keep the history of this building alive. I am also the tour program manager, and i chair the city advisory commission. I have two ways of looking at my life. I want it to be i wanted to be a Fashion Designer for the movies, and the other one, a political figure because i had some force from family members, so it was a constant battle between both. I ended up, for many years, doing the fashion, not for the movies, but for for san franciscan his and then in turn, big changes, and now i am here. The work that i do at city hall makes my life a broader, a richer, more fulfilling than if i was doing something in the garment industry. I had the opportunity to develop relationships with my docents. It is almost like an extended family. I have formed incredible relationships with them, and also some of the people that come to take a tour. She was a dressmaker of the first order. I would go visit her, and it was a special treat. I was a tiny little girl. I would go with my wool coat on an